机

機
Ji1
#111 most
frequent character
surname Ji

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

机 joins 木 tree with 几 jī, the sound part, and first named a kind of birch. The written form was later borrowed for its sound to mean a crossbow trigger, from which came 'crucial point', 'machine', 'airplane', and more. A separate sound loan gives 'short table', usually written 几.

Drawn as: tree

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Same Characters, Different Readings

机jī
(bound form) machine, mechanism

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